Cosmos: a space time Odyssey

[Matthias]

You're doing the very thing the show is warning against. You're going in with a presupposition that god did it to begin with. You're closing off all possibilities that don't involve your god/warping everything to where your god fits, and then looking for evidence to fit that confirmation bias you have.

God of the gaps, god who fills the gaps, it's the same thing. There's a gap in knowledge, you insert god.

 

It doesn't matter in my case.  If I ask the question how did God do it, I will find out that out.  So if I for example discovered the unification theory that joins the quantum world to the larger world of relativity, I would say God did it this way.  In essence I would give God credit to every scientific finding.

 

Of course as yall know, I'm still of the YEC beliefs.  So my thoughts are my own for now.

[KillerKat]

Finally an episode that talked about something I haven't heard before. I now have a very logical idea of what happens inside a black hole.

[KillerKat]

The way someone explains something makes a huge difference. I actually have heard this theory before, but the way it was told made me think wtf? Now this way, it made sense.

[Cat]

It doesn't matter in my case.  If I ask the question how did God do it, I will find out that out.  So if I for example discovered the unification theory that joins the quantum world to the larger world of relativity, I would say God did it this way.  In essence I would give God credit to every scientific finding.

 

Of course as yall know, I'm still of the YEC beliefs.  So my thoughts are my own for now.

 

 

I am trying but can't make any sense out of your last two post in this thread. Are you joking around and it's just completely going over my head? 

[Matthias]

I am trying but can't make any sense out of your last two post in this thread. Are you joking around and it's just completely going over my head? 

 

It's kind of like Francis Collins.  He gives all the credit of his discoveries to God, it's an extra step everyone ignores.  Yet I'm still a young earth creationist.

[natty]

This is the cosmos matthias has been watching

 

[KillerKat]

This thread has been dying quick lol. Tonight's episode was kind of lame. Only thing I learned about were black lines in between spectrums of light. This show has been hugely over hyped.

[lightsout]

Yeah, I didn't dig tonight's episode too much. It was less science, more history. I get the whole need for a history backdrop to science, but give me more of the science-y stuff and less cartoons of characters from the 17th century and before.

[KillerKat]

Yeah, I didn't dig tonight's episode too much. It was less science, more history. I get the whole need for a history backdrop to science, but give me more of the science-y stuff and less cartoons of characters from the 17th century and before.

This series has been more about our civilization's history than about the universe. I don't give a fug about our civilization's past. I watch this show for the universe!

[Matthias]

We're the best thing about about the universe. B)

[Matthias]

My only complaint about the show is I'm still waiting for a mention of a sub-Saharan African contribution to the world.  So far they've mentioned contributions from Europe, Asia, and the the Americas. (I believe they mentioned the Mayans).  I want to hear more about that African contribution, other than being the birth place of humans.  The only black guy that was mentioned in the show so far, is pretty much a shadow.  We don't even know if he was black, but is only said to have a dark complexion. (This was in the episode that included the discussion of black holes.  DeGrasse mentioned this person may have been the first guy to contemplate about the idea of black holes, which he called them "Dark Stars")

 

 

So I just want to know a little more about black history other than the struggle of racism and so forth.  What are our contributions, again other than being the birth place for humanity?

[KillerKat]

My only complaint about the show is I'm still waiting for a mention of a sub-Saharan African contribution to the world.  So far they've mentioned contributions from Europe, Asia, and the the Americas. (I believe they mentioned the Mayans).  I want to hear more about that African contribution, other than being the birth place of humans.  The only black guy that was mentioned in the show so far, is pretty much a shadow.  We don't even know if he was black, but is only said to have a dark complexion. (This was in the episode that included the discussion of black holes.  DeGrasse mentioned this person may have been the first guy to contemplate about the idea of black holes, which he called them "Dark Stars")

 

 

So I just want to know a little more about black history other than the struggle of racism and so forth.  What are our contributions, again other than being the birth place for humanity?

I don't wanna hear poo about humans. I wanna hear about the galaxy. You know, what the show is actually named.

[Jangler]

when do the Klingon's show up?

[natty]

I don't wanna hear poo about humans. I wanna hear about the galaxy. You know, what the show is actually named.

 

The term cosmos is actually a philosophical term.  It basically means the order of everything - the universe, nature, man, etc.  If you want to watch a show about cool stuff in space there are plenty of others out there but that's not the point of this series.